SHANNON AIRPORT will not be renamed as Limerick Airport despite the accidental attempts of management at Gatwick to do so.

Last week, the departures board listed a Ryanair FR1193 flight scheduled for Shannon Airport as instead heading for Limerick.

This drew the ire of Clare TD, Cathal Crowe (FF). “Shannon deserves its proper name,” he said while referring to his role as Fianna Fáil’s spokesperson and “a staunch supporter of Shannon Airport” when outlining he would be contacting CEO of London Gatwick, Stewart Wingate.

In correspondence to Deputy Crowe, Wingate explained, “We’ve investigated this and a recent IT update on one of our systems has wrongly pulled through flight information for Shannon (SNN) displaying the destination to passengers as Limerick. We’ve corrected this today in the system so all future flights to Shannon will be correctly displayed at Gatwick. Please accept our apologies for this”.

After receiving the clarification, Deputy Crowe said, “I’m happy to report that the ‘renaming’ of Shannon Airport fiasco has been resolved. It’s still Shannon Airport, not ‘Limerick’”.

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